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How well do you know the couple: 7 rounds guests answer from phones
"Who said 'I love you' first?" Four answers on the projector, sixty-odd phones lighting up around the room. The groom's mother taps hers with total confidence and gets it wrong. Her table howls. At the top table the groom half stands up to object, the bride pulls him back down by the jacket, and the leaderboard reshuffles. That's the whole appeal of a couple quiz: everybody thinks they know them.
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I run some version of this at most weddings, rehearsal dinners and engagement parties I host. It works because the subject is the one thing every guest has in common. The college friends know the early stories, the parents know the childhood ones, and the new in-laws know almost nothing, which turns out to be funny too.
On PULTEVENT the questions go on the big screen, guests answer on their own phones after scanning a QR code (no app to install), and the scores update as they go. Phones need internet, so it's worth checking the signal in the room. The quiz itself you write in the quiz builder, in whatever language your guests speak.
7 rounds for a couple quiz, and what each one is for
1 How it started
The easy opener: where they met, who made the first move, what they did on the first date. Four answers each, one of them a deliberate joke.
How to run it. Put the funniest wrong answer in the first question. It tells the room this is a game, not an exam.
Everybody gets at least one right in the first minute, and that's what keeps them playing.
2 Put it in order
Five moments from their story go on screen out of order: the first holiday together, moving in, the dog, the terrible sofa, the proposal. Guests put them in the right order.
How to run it. Load the couple's own events the same way you load quiz questions. Use real dates from them, not guesses from friends.
Couples usually disagree about their own timeline. Letting them argue about it at the top table is half the fun.
3 Which one of you is this
Childhood photos of both of them, one at a time. The room guesses whose picture it is, and you reveal the name with a separate click.
How to run it. Pick photos with a clue in them: a school uniform, a hometown landmark, a truly regrettable haircut. Scan old prints in daylight without flash.
It's the round that needs no reading, so the oldest and youngest guests play it equally.
4 Who said it
Before the wedding you ask each of them the same questions separately. On the night the room guesses which one gave each answer.
How to run it. Record the answers by message, not on a call, so they can't hear each other. Keep the one that made you laugh on first reading.
Guests learn something new about both of them, and the couple learn something new about each other.
5 True or false
Statements about the couple: she once got locked out of her own apartment in a towel; he has never watched a whole football game. Guests tap Believe or Don't believe, then you reveal the truth with a sound effect.
How to run it. Mix three true and two false, and make one of the false ones sound very likely.
Fast rounds reset the energy after a slower one like the photo round.
6 The numbers round
How many countries have they been to together? How many times have they moved? How many plants has he killed? Four ranges to choose from.
How to run it. Use ranges (5 to 9, 10 to 14) instead of exact numbers. Nobody enjoys losing by one.
It rewards people who pay attention, which usually means the siblings.
7 The podium
If tables have been playing as teams, the scoreboard runs an awards ceremony at the end: special awards, then third place, second, and the winning table with fanfare and confetti.
How to run it. Rename the special awards before the night. "Knows the Groom Too Well" goes down better than anything generic.
A clear ending lets you hand the room straight to the first dance or the cake.
Everyone answers at once
No hands up, no shouting over each other. Each guest taps an answer and the room sees who knew.
Scores on the wall
The leaderboard updates after every question. Tables can play as teams if you'd rather not rank individuals.
Your questions, not a template
You write every question with the couple, so the quiz is about them and nobody else.
Rounds you can mix
Multiple choice, put-it-in-order, baby photos, true or false. Pick three rounds for a reception or all seven for a rehearsal dinner.
Writing questions people can actually answer
The best question is one that about a third of the room knows. If only the best friend knows, everyone else feels shut out. If everyone knows, there's no game. When I read a draft with the couple, I ask of each question: who at this wedding would get it right? If the answer is "his brother, maybe", it goes.
Keep answers short enough to read from the back of a big tent. Four options, one of them silly. And never make the right answer depend on a detail only the couple could confirm, like the exact restaurant on a night nobody else was there.
Ask them separately
The Who Said It round only works if they don't compare notes. Send each of them the same five questions in a message and ask for a one-line answer. Tell them not to discuss it until the wedding.
Some couples cheat. You'll know, because the answers match word for word. Just use the questions where they clearly didn't.
What I cut, every time
Exes. Money. Anything from a stag do or hen do. Anything a grandparent would need explained. I also cut questions that turn one of them into the punchline four times in a row. Tease both of them equally, and never about something they're sensitive about.
One groom's cousin once wrote me a question about the bride's first engagement.
"Is that a no?"
"That's a never."
How long should it run
At a reception, three or four rounds and about twelve questions: fifteen minutes, maybe less. Before the first dance is a good slot, or right after dessert. At a rehearsal dinner or an engagement party you can play all seven rounds, because the quiz is the evening's main event there.
Put the couple's names and a photo on the splash screen while guests scan the QR code. It gives the stragglers a minute to join before question one.
Phones, signal and grandparents
Guests play in the phone's browser, so they need internet. In a basement function room or a field, check the signal first. If it's patchy, run the photo round from the screen with the room shouting answers, and keep the scored rounds for when you're sure of the connection.
For older guests, the answer buttons are large and it's one tap per question. The bigger risk is the grandchild answering on their behalf, which I've decided is allowed.
Getting it ready
You can build the whole quiz in the free 3-day demo, no card required, and click through it on your own TV at home. After that it's a one-time license, no subscription; pricing is on pultevent.ru/en.
The host console is being localized into English, and each guest's phone shows its screens in that guest's language. The questions are whatever you type in.
About the author
PULTEVENT was built by Ruslan Barashkin, who has hosted weddings, birthdays and office parties since 2014: over 500 events, best host of Moscow 2024 and of Saint Petersburg 2023 at the TOP 100 Awards. He made it for his own nights first. The rest is at pultevent.ru/en.
How to run a couple quiz on the big screen
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Meet the couple for half an hour and collect stories, dates, photos and separate answers.
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Write twelve to twenty questions and load them into the quiz builder.
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Add childhood photos for the photo round and the story events for the Timeline round.
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Set up tables as teams if you want a table podium rather than individual scores.
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On the night, show the splash with the QR code for a couple of minutes before you start.
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Play the rounds, read out the funny wrong answers, and finish on the podium.
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